Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pron] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Isabel stopped her pacing about the room and looked at de Raimes in surprise . |
| 2 | The Londoner found himself staring into the expressionless face of the tall and broad , blond-haired , blue-eyed bouncer . |
| 3 | Corbett met him coming up the stairs . |
| 4 | Rex found himself crashing to the ground . |
| 5 | She was seen by neighbours as she made her way along Athelstane Road towards her home , minutes before passers-by found her lying on the pavement . |
| 6 | The vicious front snap-kick caught him caught him just above his right hip , instead of square in the groin , but its force knocked him spinning to the ground . |
| 7 | Hari heard him beating at the bushes with his truncheon and then he opened the door to the workshop . |
| 8 | Lucy watched them going down the lane . |
| 9 | Shook newspaper off and the wind sent it whirling into the railings of the park . |
| 10 | A child in a doorway saw me coming through the olives and called , and then the entire population of the tiny hamlet appeared — four women and half a dozen children , unmistakably islanders . |
| 11 | PALACEGATE EPISODE ended her racing for the season on a winning note yesterday . |
| 12 | Ruth found herself crouching on the floor , almost fainting ; wondering how she could ever have thought before that Fincara was casting spells . |
| 13 | Even with regard to this episode Margaret showed a sisterly loyalty : I am told that when she and Ivy found themselves staying at the same hotel as Cecilia Ady , Eleanor Jourdain 's chief opponent , ‘ there was a marked coldness ’ . |
| 14 | Romany mimed them going about the boat , looking here and looking there . |
| 15 | In the first premonition , Mr Reynolds saw himself standing on the footplate of No 43106 leaving Bridgnorth , smoke-box first , with some covered wagons heading for Bewdley . |
| 16 | A friend of mine realized how much cellulite she had when her little girl spotted her sitting on the loo , bare flesh displayed . |
| 17 | Alan left him howling in the cot again while he went for a bowl of water . |
| 18 | The wedding between the two young gipsies was a moving ceremony , although Christian 's lengthy sermon had everyone fidgeting on the hard bench seats before it was ended . |
| 19 | Ginny left him brooding on the past in front of a game show on television . |
| 20 | Sarah Fleming saw them coming through the window of the front room . |
| 21 | Olga heard him singing in the bathroom and shouted that supper would be ready in a few minutes . |
| 22 | The Time of Troubles had further weakened their position , and as the Duma swelled in size from about 30 in the 1620s to almost 180 in the 1680s , the old families found themselves dissolving among the parvenus . |
| 23 | He was that one , of course , and the night found him sitting in the back of a purring car being driven around the frosty streets of London in search of somebody to help him finish the story . |
| 24 | Nikos smiled and said something softly in Greek , and for some reason Lindsey found herself blushing at the sudden contact of Niall 's hand against her arm , but she could n't interpret the look he gave her as they were ushered towards one of the few empty tables overlooking the harbour . |
| 25 | The next day found her driving round the busy , bustling city of Sheffield , desperately trying to keep one eye on the traffic , and the other on the directions scrawled on a piece of paper . |
| 26 | Lee found herself gazing at the pubes of a woman a little way along from her and thinking about undergrowths and mazes and secrets and magic and dirt . |
| 27 | Lee ‘ s briskness had been a last stand and she was ready to turn and walk down the five flights of stairs again when the door in front of her suddenly swung open and Lee found herself walking through the doorway . |
| 28 | Jessamy found herself staring at the powerful set of his shoulders , and remembered all too clearly that the aura of power was n't just an illusion . |
| 29 | Miranda found herself flying through the air . |
| 30 | ‘ Clarissa heard herself hurrying through the difficult bit . |